Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-10-29
Mining SharDs.

About year or so ago .wO men giS-
 ing their names ss Geo. c. Clark end
 Frenk P. Cook employed John ViviGo, q
 well known Pima county prosPector, to locate Tor ibeIn two mining claims, one claim to stand each ID their individual names. He did Gs requested and was paid ten dollars therefor. He offered for similar pay, to make ss maDJ other mineral bearing" locations ss they wanted, bu. was met with Damn the mineral, bll we wan. IS 6 ground To- cation" The two claims located for these worthies, by Vivian, are sItuEseG on Chloride Flat, Amole district, ard recorded as the Buckeye and Sum nit mines.
 Clark and Cook shortly afterwards disappeared from the country and 70 more was heard or though; of them until last spring when Recorder sampson re- ceiyed couple of quit claim deeds for record, transferring one-halt Of each Ot said claims to Messrs. Hitt end Baker of Chicago, for Si OJO. Sl ,OOO having been paid C. sn down, ,he bsIsnce to be pGid on ApFil Is; past. shortly afterwards Mir. Sampson received letters and teis- grams from MIr Hit making Inqury oi the claims Tn question aud also stating that Cook had disappeared and they feared, that Bs he was sick when !aEt seen, III had befeilen him. Later on this ssmP z ntlemRn detailed the fOllOI- ing story of the swiud!e:.
 Cook, CD making the Gcqugiutance of Hit;, deedec him aud Nr. BskeT, 0 one- half interest in the "Buckeye mine" then introduced bIs partner Clark (bUt then not known es such as the owner If the Summit mlne, and as lt HGI1lned the Buckeye, urged them 10 buy i,, which they dld on the terms aud conditions sbOve stated. The SlO0O pad down Was, of cOurse, evenly divided between tine two ECn, but Oi taiz lint and Baker we're ui course. ignorant Cook had been particularly friendly with Mf. Hit, and h..d even agreed to cone to Arfzo- m vi,h him and show him tile mines, the latter gentle man to pay all the ex- penses ot the trIp, out II1t previous tu starting. Cook disappeared and his Alk lkff~ NNAg A4uLA tNaANCA A4fHN NfNfrFtaNs AN they believed EIm n. or ihsg Lr h.i gone insane and wandered of, SD ;bnocent were they oi the wiles of sn ArizJn3 sharper. Mir, sampson vas then written to, IS stated. and he frspkiy wrote them the true iu Tardness of the whole concern, instead o' s cabin and fifty foot tun- uel on tue claims, as repre-cu'ed, there Is DO evidence that Q pick had ever heen -iusk iI either Ut them. This was an eye opener Co the purchasers, and ti,y set sbo-t looking m the pedIErces fl Nessrs Cook and Clark. and to their surprise, found them quite lengthy of record Cook. they discoye.ei. he'd four aliases and Clark three, as follows; Frank ?. Osok. Frank Pine, Frank HCG- nun, Frank D. Hall. Clark Veie Geo. C. Clark. John Sweeny. and MT. Swan. but .he the wniiom bearers of the rsmos could mol be found, although Messrs Hut tn1 Baker wanted them very much for the peuIteutiary.
 This ended the chapter Un,il the l7th of the present October, then Recorder SampsOn received telegram from F.. < Smith, SyrEcuse. New York. ask ing If the cisIms of Messrs Clark and Ashton, O. Chloride lat. Edi3;Bed, and were free from mOrtghge, and Co wire answer. Here wns a new phase n Ai- fairs. and it was evident that the men of ulsDy aliases were isbIDg for similsr gudgeons in Syrlcuse to thOse caught in Chicago, but wi h whlt success has not Us yes been learned, but will be, eventually.
 Instead oi answering Smith, Mir. Sampegu f.!aprHDhad Hit Hs to the whereabouts of his gay deceIvers and he will probably bring then up on ths short end of the law. Although the name of Ashton appears on one Ct ths location psperr. It IS probably Gn alias which Clark finds handy Co hEye around. h the deal with :Hit. and Baker taIs nsme vAs unknown but 10 the SyrRcusa steal the Ashton name has been put forward while that of Clark is kept ID the background.